Hair-crimping tool



(No Model.) W. A. HAUGE.

HAIR GRIMPING TOOL. No. 278,944. Patented June 5,1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

XVI'LLIAM A. HAUCE, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.

HAIR-CRIVMPING TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 278,944, dated June 5,1883,

Application filed March 20, 1883.

To all whom it 72mg concern.-

Be it known that I, W'ILLIAu AUeUs'rUs HAUCE, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Springfield, inthe county of Clarke and State ofOhio, have invented newand useful Improvements in Hand Crimping-Tools,of which the following is a specification.

Hy invention relates to hand crimping-tools in which the crimping-jawsare operated by handles pivoted like and operating like the handles ofshears to open and close the crimping-jaws with one hand; but ashitherto man ufactured the jaws have been made of corrugated ShGGtIIOIIor other metal, and have tended to seriously injure the hair by anexcess of heat, and also required to be frequently heated.

The object of my improvement is to avoid this destructive injury to thehair by making the crimping-jaws of non-metallicheat absorbing andretaining material, and fastening the shear-handles thereto, ashereinafter specifically set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a view in perspectiveof a hand crimping-tool embracing my invention, and Fig. 2 a

sectional view of the crimping-tool on the line w of Fig. 1.

In the drawings, A A are the crimping j aws, made of non-metallic heatabsorbing and re taining material such as that used inthe manufacture ofcrockeryand fluted on the meeting faces, as shown.

B B are the handles, made of metal and similar in construction and inoperation to the common shears .but the parts which would becutting-blades in shears are here widened flattened clips D, havingholes through which screws or rivets a av a are driven to fasten them tothe crimping-jaws, holes being made in the latter for that purpose.These handles, being flat and broad at their connections with the jaws,give afirm, strong, and rigid connection, thus insuring that the flutedsurface of one crimping-j aw shall always fit that of the other in theprocess of crimping, as is well under- (N0 model.)

stood. But the most important point of my invention is in the selectionof the non-metallie heat absorbing and retaining material for the jaws.I, prefer to make them of the same material as that used in themanufacture of crockery-ware, stoneware, fire-clay, or of wood.

If of fire-clay, they may be heated by direct contact with fire orflame; but usually it is only necessary to hold the jaws above a 'gasjetor lamp-chimney; or they maybe brought to a most desirable temperatureby plunging made thick, so as to cause them to retain the heat longer,and yet they are of no greater cubic surface than those made ofcorrugated sheet metal. 7 p

Of course the tool may be used in laundry work, or wherever a crimper isused, if de sired, as well as for the hair; but my main objectwas toproduce a crimping-tool harmless to the human hair.

I claim A crimping-tool consisting of crimpingjaws made of non-metallicheat-absorbing ma terial, fluted on their meeting faces, and oper atedbypivoted handles secured thereto, sub stantially as described, for thepurpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses. I

WILLIAM AUGUSTUS HAUCE.

Witnesses:

JAS. Jormsos, Jr. GEO. S. DIAL.

It is hereby certified that the name of the patentee of Letters PatentNo. 278,944, granted June 5, 1883, for an improvement in Hair-CrimpingTools, was erroneously printed and Written William A. Hauce instead ofWithmn A. Hmwe; that it appears fi om affidavits filed in the PatentOffice that the correct name is William A. Hance;

and that this correction should be read in the said Letters Patent tomake the same conform to the record of the casein the Patent Office.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 3d day of July, A. D. 1883.

[SEAL.] M. L. JOSLYN,

Acting Secretary of the Interimz Countersigned:

E. M. MARBLE,

Commissioner of Patents.

